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title: "Quick Start"
description: "Get started with ART in a few quick steps."
icon: "forward"
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In this Quick Start tutorial, we'll be training Qwen 2.5 14B to play [2048](https://play2048.co/), a simple game that requires forward planning and basic math skills.

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Reading time: <b>15 min</b>

Training time: <b>2 hours</b>

Total cost: <b>Free!</b>

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## Step 1: Provision W&B API key

[ART](https://github.com/OpenPipe/art) is an open source library and works across infra and observability providers. To keep things simple in this tutorial, we'll exclusively use Weights & Biases services, which means we'll only need to provision one API key. We'll use these services:

* **W&B Training** - autoscale GPUs for inference and training
* **W&B Models** - record metrics like reward
* **W&B Weave** - record your model's traces as it generates completions
* **W&B Artifacts** - store and manage your model's checkpoints

Weights & Biases currently provides a small free tier for all the services we'll use during this quickstart, so you shouldn't need to add a credit card to get started.

- [Weights & Biases](https://wandb.ai/home)

Once you have your Weights & Biases API key, open the [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/openpipe/art-notebooks/blob/main/examples/2048/2048.ipynb) in Google Colab and set it in the **Environment Variables** cell. Then continue on to the next step.

## Step 2: Run the notebook

At the top of the [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/openpipe/art-notebooks/blob/main/examples/2048/2048.ipynb) you should see a small **Run all** button. Press it to begin training your model.


## Step 3: Track metrics

While your run progresses, observe its traces and metrics in your [W&B workspace](https://wandb.ai/home). You should start seeing some progress in the first 20-30 steps. If you have questions along the way, please ask in the [Discord](https://discord.gg/zbBHRUpwf4). Happy training!
